In a message dated 12/30/2004 8:24:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
> I can say that there are "controls" to keep the styli in alignment. With > the > recommended 56" brass horns, it was quite a blast. It was also exhibited at > the 1904 St Louis Worlds Fair - Columbia Pavillion. > *************** > I thought it was for sale some time back. Did you decide to keep it, or is > it still available? > ************** Well, it's a toss-up as to who finds the rest of the machine first. Here is an excerpt from PHP: "The Multiplex Grand was seen by the visiting Shah of Persia (Muzaffa-ad-Din) on July 29th, 1900, ordered by him in Paris and shipped from Bridgeport on March 21, 1901 (along with 32 barrels of cylinders), and then transported to Teheran on the backs of camels. Columbia thought for several years afterwards that they were dealing with his father Nasir, who had been assassinated in 1896. Only the three-reproducer carriage from the Graphophone factory, adapted for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair Columbia Exhibit, survives; none of the records (long-play single-track or triple-track stereo) have been found. They were 14" long..." Allen www.phonobooks.com
